UNDER THE DECK AWNINGS by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 16 January 2022
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In "Under the Deck Awnings" from Jack London, a group of people cruising the South Pacific pause for a story from one of the men sitting on deck.
He recalls a similar party on which was a beautiful but spoiled and deadly woman, who decided to tempt a group of young native divers with coins she would throw overboard.
After they spotted a shark and left the water, she continued the game.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to 1001 classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:34.7 | In this tense Jack London short story from the South Pacific, a group of men relaxing |
| 0:39.5 | on the deck of a ship or told a story of a beautiful but deadly young woman who tries to lure |
| 0:45.8 | a young island boy to his death for her own thrill. And now, under the deck awnings by Jack London. |
| 0:57.5 | Can any man, a gentleman, I mean, call a woman, a pig? |
| 1:02.6 | The little man flung this challenge forth to the whole group, |
| 1:06.2 | then leaned back in his deck chair, |
| 1:08.4 | sipping lemonade with an air commingled of certitude and watchful belligerence. |
| 1:14.2 | Nobody made answer. |
| 1:16.5 | They were used to the little man and his sudden passions at high elevations. |
| 1:21.9 | I repeat, it was in my presence that he said a certain lady, whom none of you knows, was a pig. |
| 1:29.3 | He did not say swine. |
| 1:31.3 | He grossly said that she was a pig. |
| 1:34.1 | And I hold that no man, who is a man, could possibly make such a remark about any woman. |
| 1:41.6 | Dr. Dawson puffed stoddly at his black pipe. |
| 1:45.6 | Matthews, with knees hunched up and clasped, was absorbed in the flight of a goony. |
| 1:52.2 | Sweet, finishing his scotch and soda, was questing about with his eyes for a deck steward. |
| 1:59.3 | "'I ask you, Mr. Trellower, can any man call any woman a pig? |
| 2:05.7 | Trelawar, who happened to be sitting next to him, was startled by the abruptness of the |
| 2:09.9 | attack, and wondered what grounds he had ever given the little man to believe that he could call |
| 2:15.5 | a woman a pig. |
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